silicone all over tube socket pins

[phsyconoodler]

I have a triple rectifier mesa on the bench that someone has slathered clear silicone goo all over the tube sockets and pins of ALL the tubes.
  And I mean SLATHERED. It's like he uses a whole tube of the stuff.It's the consistency of vaseline with no color.
Is there any issues that can come from using this stuff like this?I have never heard of or seen anything like this used in any tube amp I've ever come across in my lifetime.
  We used to use it in automotive bulb sockets to keep them from corroding but never anywhere else.
Any insight into this would be appreciated.

[Jack_Hester]

Sounds like anti-corrosion was their intention.  We used to buy a no-ox paste for all our dissimilar metal junctions, here at the power plant.  We now use a synthetic gear lube (very thin film).  My Daddy always used just plain ol' 'axle grease' on his electrical junctions.  I would say clean the silicone stuff off with brake cleaner, but that stuff will attack plastic and wire insulation.  Acetone and a q-tip will clean your terminals fairly easy. 

Jack

[Bub]

I read somewhere it was to stop arcing from the plate to heater pin on amps with really high plate voltage, 600V and up, but who knows.

Rob

[Ritchie200]

Call the client and tell them that this crap needs to come out - and my hourly rate is......  Besides, he/she needs to get rid of the rectumfryer anyway and buy one of your hand built masterpieces!  It's all sales:  ...the touch sensitive ions in the hand soldered point-to-point junctions that grab the free ranging tone which enhances the dynamics of the guitar that are just bursting to bloom from the specialized patent-pending sound fountain circuitry that is absofricken perfect for the (insert Rock, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Blues, Jazz, etc., etc....) that you play!

Good luck!
Jim

[Willabe]

and buy one of your hand built masterpieces!  It's all sales:  ...the touch sensitive ions in the hand soldered point-to-point junctions that grab the free ranging tone which enhances the dynamics of the guitar that are just bursting to bloom from the specialized patent-pending sound fountain circuitry that is absofricken perfect for the (insert Rock, Classic Rock, Death Metal, Blues, Jazz, etc., etc....) that you play!

Yeah, what he said!                 :laughing6:        :laughing7:       :laughing9:                  



           Brad           

[phsyconoodler]

You guys kill me!

I sucked all the crap out and found the real problem with the amp;a dead preamp tube and the aluminum shielding on the cabinet all wrapped up in the PC board and causing it to oscillate and short out.
  The amp sounds good now;well as good as a messy booger triple rectifier can sound.Really awful to my ears.

[Voxbox]

How did you suck it out Physc?
Straw? Hoover?
 

[Willabe]

Yuck, I don't want to know.      :hiding:


                  Brad           :laughing5:       

[phsyconoodler]

I used an air vac we have at work.Then I cleaned the rest with flux cleaner which didn't really touch the stuff but a paper towel slopped up the residue.
  This stuff is resistant to solvents and cleaners.No I didn't use a straw!